Sentence examples for imposing vat from inspiring English sources

We should resist the European paradigm of imposing VAT taxes on Internet service and the content and information accessed over the Internet.

Here, in an imposing vat, is the justly fabled ash reshteh, a result of the eight-hour communion of five kinds of beans, a riot of herbs and onion cooked down to a sweet density.

The prime minister's problems began at the Treasury select committee on Tuesday when the fiercely independent and somewhat lugubrious Labour MP John Mann asked George Osborne why he was imposing VAT on hot foods such as pasties.

Bearing in mind the cash-strapped consumers who form their core market, industry insiders said that imposing VAT on static caravans would have led to a likely fall in demand of about 30%, and the loss of around 1,000 jobs in the industry, with sizable knock-on effects elsewhere.

It will also look at imposing VAT on more types of goods.

Mr Brown also took a swipe at a Tory proposal to impose VAT on airline tickets.

Once Lamont imposed VAT on household fuel, under EU rules no British government was able to cut it.

With inflation nearing 30%, Iranians are already grumpy: witness a recent strike by bazaar merchants protesting against a plan to impose VAT, at 3%.

Few in the Treasury, if anyone, probably expected the outcry following proposals to impose VAT on hot food such as Cornish pasties.

Alternatively, something that would "hurt" a bit more, government could directly tax school fees (as in Labour's manifesto pledge to impose VAT or in Andrew Adonis's proposed 25% "educational opportunity tax").

Osborne revealed he could not recall, leading to tabloid accusations that he was not aware of the impact of the budget plan to impose VAT on hot takeaway pasties.